|
|
|
Read our
|
Charles Rammelkamp, who has often had work in Main Channel Voices, wanted a biography that was romantic and mysterious. He recently made a journey to the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine Florida, only to find it was not the “real” fountain discovered by Ponce de Leòn. The fountain’s actual location is a mystery. Charles has vowed to go on a romantic quest for the true site. The Astronomy Professor’s Hubris
The crazy thing was, when the madman broke into the room, guns waving around like lightning rods, taking the class hostage as in a scene from Dog Day Afternoon, all I kept thinking was we were falling behind in the syllabus, like astronauts in outer space drifting away from the space station, our hands reaching out to hold something, but coming up empty, grabbing at nothing, stability elusive as page numbers next to calendar dates.
We were supposed to begin discussing the constellations, Cassiopeia, chained up in the sky because she’d been so boastful about her beauty.
Poseidon made her that funny five-star zig-zag, to placate the Nereids.
How do you make something poetic out of a random assemblage of stars, derive a shape to fit a story about the consequences of pride?
I try to do it with my curriculum, knowledge shaped in a grand connect-the-dots pattern, scattered all to hell now by this lunatic straight out of some tragic mythology. |
Send mail to
Contact@mainchannelvoices.com
|
